The Lost Atlantis

And Other Ethnographic Studies

by Daniel Wilson

Excerpt

The Preface is the most troublesome part of a book, I have often heard my dear Father say; and now it falls to my unaccustomed pen to write a preface for him.

I cannot undertake to define the aim of this book; I can only tell how the last work on it was done. In my Father's note-book I find it described as A few carefully studied mono graphs, linked together by a slender thread of ethnographic relationship.